Ultrawide tunable Er soliton fiber laser amplified in Yb-doped fiber

Abstract

A Raman-shifted and frequency-doubled high-power Er-fiber soliton laser for seeding an efficient high-power Yb fiber femtosecond amplifier is demonstrated. The Raman-shifted and frequency-doubled Er-soliton laser is tunable from 1.00 to $1.070 \mathit{\mu }\mathrm{m}$ and produces bandwidth-limited 24-pJ pulses at a repetition rate of 50 MHz with a FWHM pulse width of 170 fs at $1.040 \mathit{\mu }\mathrm{m}$. The ${\mathrm{Yb}}^{3+}$ amplifier has a slope efficiency of 52% and generates 3-ps linearly chirped pulses with an average power of 0.8 W at $1.05 \mathit{\mu }\mathrm{m}$. After pulse compression, 74-fs bandwidth-limited pulses with an average power of 0.4 W and a pulse energy of 8 nJ are generated.